manipulating headers / footers through API?

[Niels Fanøe]

Hi Jakob,

Can't you manipulate the markers "Header/Footer $1" and "Header/Footer $2" instead, and just include those markers in the footer? 

I've made a FrameScript program that does this in order to create footers for an index, so I guess you can do that with the API. Might prove easier.

Best regards,
Niels

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] 
> On Behalf Of Jakob Fix
> Sent: 11. januar 2006 12:25
> To: Framers List
> Subject: manipulating headers / footers through API?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently exploring the feasibility to modify/update what 
> is displayed in the running footer through an API client 
> which reads information from an initialization file, and 
> updates the footer accordingly, like this:
> 
> maker.ini
> ----------------8<----------------8<----------------
> [MyInitSection]
> initfile = TestInit.ini
> 
> TestInit.ini
> ----------------8<----------------8<----------------
> [Publication1]
> FooterCenter="DRAFT"
> FooterBinding="January 2006"
> 
> 
> Now, it can't be very hard to read these configuration 
> settings from within an API client.  However, what I'm 
> currently struggling with is how to access the footer of my 
> document.  So far, I've found this:
> 
> FO_MasterPage
> -> FP_PageFrame (which is a FO_UnanchoredFrame)
>    -> FP_FirstGraphicInFrame and then
>    -> FP_NextGraphicInFrame (apparently TextFrames are "graphics")
>       -> use this object's objId with F_ApiGetText
>       -> and then F_ApiDeleteText and F_ApiAddText
> 
> All this comes from reading the FDK reference and the FDK 
> Guide. As I said I'm investigating this because we may hire a 
> programmer to do this (and more), but I'm no C++ programmer 
> myself, so testing out the above would take me quite some time.
> 
> BTW, we're currently updating the information in the footer 
> through text insets located in a separate file (I guess that 
> this may be your first suggestion to "do it another way"), 
> but we'd like to centralize information like this in one 
> easy-to-manage configuration text file for each publication.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> cheers,
> Jakob.
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